Hi I finally got around to joining this. I'm the guy with WhiteHat who answered the emails mentioned above. I'm not a developer or in a really technical capacity here, so I won't be able to answer more in-depth questions, but I can and will forward them to our development team in an attempt to make what Aviator does/is more apparent to everyone. Hopefully this all falls within the forum rules regarding advertising or product boosting...
To Username Issues: I finally responded to your email. I apologize for taking such an obscenely long time to do it, I saw it, sent the suggestion to development, and then just blatantly forgot to send an acknowledgement to you. Rookie mistake on my part, and once again I am really sorry for the inconvenience.
Regarding the person who's cookie settings won't stick (Callender in
Post 120), this seems to be an issue that just came out the last update or two. I know development's working on this, but I don't know exactly what they've got done. This seems to be a result of us moving Settings to be opened in a Protected window, when before it was Not Protected. This is a shot in the dark, but if you open Settings in a Not Protected window (ctrl+shift+u, then settings as normal) you might be able to get the settings to "stick". I can't stress the
shot-in-the-darkiness (shot-in-the-darkiosity? Well, whatever the word for being characteristic of being a shot in the dark is) improbability of this suggestion enough, but it is possible it works.
To other posts, we're kind of stretched thin for a lot of things, what with being a new browser and all, so things like consistent browser window size are known but aren't prioritized for repair when we have more pressing functionality issues to focus on. Eventually we'll get that fixed as the long term success of Aviator depends on it being a browser that doesn't frustrate you every time you open it. Regarding Panopticlick, we're pretty identifiable, that's a side effect of being a new browser, though we're looking into ways to improve this in the future. Browser fingerprinting may not be too big a deal now when compared to cookies for tracking, but in the future we do want to be ready for it.
This is a pretty big thread already, so I can't hope to say everything here to answer all the still open questions, so I'll limit my response to the above. If you have any questions post them here or email me at the support website and I'll either answer or get someone more qualified to answer.
Finally, on a more selfish note, it's been pointed out rightfully that Aviator's a newer browser, thus partially explaining the large amount of bugs or lack of polish. The solution to this to hear what people who use it dislike/notice/want. So don't be shy to let me know what is wrong with Aviator, what could be better and what you think should be done. We're a small team and it's hard to get that info on our own.
PS regarding the "Their style/hype of communicating things is worse than Chicken Little's and Steve Gibson's" comment... Yeah that seems about right. Hype must sell, I guess...
